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I’ve just returned from an excellent performance by chamber music ensemble Musica Alta Ripa, featuring works from the Baroque to early Classical periods — on authentic instruments! — at St. Scholastica’s College. The first piece played, the Overture in E minor by Johann Bernhard Bach (one of J.S. Bach’s sons), was wonderfully crisp, each movement […]
I’m ba-ack! Miss me? It’s been rather busy behind the scenes, as I snatch minutes away from work and play to tweak code and add stuff to the site. I’ve just finished a day-long struggle with two different comments scripts: CGIComments and DotComments. My original intention was to use CGIComments for my blog, but it […]
P. Andrew Sandlin has an engaging Reformed critique of the Fundamental Baptist movement, but many of his concerns about the FBM don’t apply to Berean Bible Baptist Church, where we’ve been attending for the past three Sundays. As Sandlin says, “there is a great deal of diversity within it [the FBM]. Certain descriptions and criticisms […]
Good heavens. The Kaycee story just took a turn for the bizarre. The media is on it already, and word is flying that it’s going to make the news. From bonzo, on the MeFi thread… Kelli Swensen and the N’Sync girls created Kaycee (probably to meet boys online, etc). Julie’s photos were used because she […]
The Philippine summer is here, which means that from March to June, outside temperatures will be 30 to 40 degrees Celsius, with a hot sun beating down mercilessly from a cloudless sky. An average humidity of one hundred percent doesn’t help much. It was oppressively muggy in my room this afternoon, but a nice breeze […]
Negotiations failed to convince Estrada to officially resign. He has instead asked for 5 days to “think about it,” and is now closeted up in the Palace with the few supporters he has left. Three business days — enough time to cash a check? The march on the Palace may be delayed, but that has […]
Fighting has broken out between pro-Erap and anti-Erap rallyists on Ayala Avenue. As anti-Erap groups gathered at Buendia and De la Rosa and started heading towards Ayala, Pro-Erap rallyists threw stones and threatened them. There’s a lot of shouting outside right now, and live TV coverage shows scattered fighting, as people throw stones and whatever […]
More and more rumors are popping up about the possibility of military intervention. One popular SMS-forward claims that as soon as a critical mass of one million people is reached, the military will side against the administration. The human chain today was successful, and the crowd at Edsa continues to grow (estimated about 100,000 to […]
Lots of anti-Erap rallies happening this week. Several groups from rural areas outside Manila are supposed to be converging on the city on Wednesday for a big one. And rich folk are hosting a free “People Power Lunch” for anti-Erap rallyists at the Ayala-Paseo intersection. Ha! Using Erap’s own pang-masa tactics against him. Maybe that, […]
The Philippine military has begun bombing the Islamic rebels in the south. No, calling them “rebels” is wrong. The Abu Sayyaf kidnapped locals and foreigners and held them for ransom. As the government fumbled and waffled through negotiations, Libya paid the ransom, and hostages were released. Then, emboldened, the Sayyaf went out and kidnapped more: […]